Undo 'stop indexing' and autorotation

greyilocks

I have a load of CR3 portrait images that were rotated horizontally. Different viewers display these images different ways, which is a nightmare.

Exiftool shows that there are two variabes, and I guess different viewers do different things with one/both?

Orientation : Horizontal (normal)
Auto Rotate : Rotate 90 CW

Anyway, to get things clarified, I used the Canon DPP4 app to rotate them, exited the app (to force-save the changes - without this, the changes weren’t automatically saved), and tried to re-index the folder.

The cached images/thumbnails still seemed to be all over the place in tonfotos after re-indexing selected files, so
out of curiosity, I tried ‘stop indexing this folder’, and expected to be able to be able to re-add the folder to indexing, which would definitely clear everything up, but … I can’t seem to be able to do that.

What’s worse, the images are still there in the people views, but clicking on the cached images says ‘image is corrupted … undefined’.

Any idea how I could recover from this situation?

I guess i could just move the folder and re-index things to get a second copy, but I’d still have the ‘corrupted’ stuff left.

Andrey

You are right, Library locations is the way to get folders back.

greyilocks What’s worse, the images are still there in the people views, but clicking on the cached images says ‘image is corrupted … undefined’.

That sounds like a bug. After ignoring folder those files should just be deleted from Tonfotos database, but they were not for some reason. Did you close the application immediately after ignoring? This is not typical situation, I would like to know how to reproduce this issue to fix it.

As to “what to do” it is hard to say without knowing details. Can you please post a screenshot of the file information panel that shows both files as duplicaties? (one real file and one ghost)

greyilocks

After sending. that, I found another blog that explained this.

Go to ‘tonfotos’, ‘library locations’, and clear the ‘ignored locations’ entry.

I’m hoping the re-indexing that’s being carried out will sort the ‘corrupted’ cached image issue out, though should this have been taken care of by the ‘stop indexing’ action? Or would this have lost face info? I don’t know.

greyilocks

Okay, the re-indexing has added a second copy of the link to the same photo under the appropriate person. The first one gives the ‘corrupted image’ message (with ‘Additional metadata is not available since the location is disconnected’ in the metadata box), and the second goes to the newly-indexed photo.

So the question is, how do I get rid of the ones that give the ‘corrupted image’ message? Unfortunately, there are a lot of pictures in that folder, and a few people are referenced there. I’d like to avoid doing this by hand, but even then, what would be the best way of doing it?

greyilocks

I’d rather not post screenshots, as there’s a load of metadata there.

I wonder whether I’d queued a re-index of the folder, didn’t realise it hadn’t finished, but then selected ‘stop indexing’, then rescanned the parent folder?

To be honest, the English there is a little confusing. ‘Stop indexing’ sounds like you want to stop the re-index that you’ve asked for and is currently being carried out, and it should perhaps have been ‘Do not index’, ‘Not to be indexed’, ‘Remove from indexing’, or something similar. If you want any help with English here, give me a shout.

I guess I’m stuck now, and won’t be able to clear down the bad entries easily?

Here’s what the erroneous photo has for metadata: